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CHILDREN’s LITERATURE

DIDACTICA II de Nivel Inicial y EGB 1 y 2

o 1st book James Janeway (1636/1674) “ A Token for Children, Being an Exact Account of the Conversion,

Holy and Exemplary Lives and Joyful Deaths of several Young Children”

oFairy Tales 1st work Charles Perrault “Histories ou Contes de Temps passè (Histories or Stories of Past Times)

First Translation Mother Goose Tales (1729)

Collection included: * “Little Red Riding Hood” * “ Cinderella”

* “ The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” * “ Puss-in-Boots” * “ Hop o’My Thumb”

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o 1st Children’s book in English Mary Cooper’s “Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book”

Earliest Collection of Nursery Rhymes (1744)

o “Fables of Aesop and Others” (introduced by Samuel Croxall) (1722) included: La Fontaine (recently appeared in France)

o 2nd Collection Mother Goose’s Melody (1760) Published by John Newbury

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Moral Tales “The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes” (1766)

A reaction against Fairy Tales (simply fanciful of superstitious ignorance)

They opposed Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812-15)

Maria Edgeworth “Purple Jar” (1801)

Anna Letitia Barbauld “Evenings at Home” Mrs Sherwood “ The Fairchild Family” (1812) Nathaniel Hawthorne “ The Wonder Book” / “Tanglewood Tales” Susan Warner “ Wide, Wide World” (1850)

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THE GOLDEN AGE 1860’s Children’s Literature really begins William Blake (1789) “Songs of Innocence” William Wordsworth poetic explorations of childhood Charles Dickens (1830) “Oliver Twist” Caroline Sinclair (1839) “Holiday House” Edward Lear (1846) “Book of Nonsense” (absurd rhymes) Thackeray (1855) “The Rose and the Ring” Christina Rosetti (1862) “Goblin Market” Charles Kingsley (1863) “Water Babies” Lewis Carroll (1865) “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” “Through the Looking Glass” Mark Twain “Tom Sawyer” Louisa May Alcott “Little Women” George MacDonald “ At the Back of the North Wind” (illustrated by Pre-Raphaelite Arthur Hughes)

Anne Sewell “Black Beauty” Robert Louis Stevenson (1882) “Treasure Island” “Kidnapped” Andrew Lang (1889) “Fairy-Tale Collection” Rudyard Kipling (1894) “Jungle Books” “Just-So Stories for Little Children” E. Nesbit (1899) “Bastable Books” Beatrix Potter (1900) “Small Books about Animals” (tiny masterpieces beginning with “The Tales of Peter Rabbit”) Kenneth Grahame (1908) “The Wind in the Willows” Frances Hodgson Burnett (1912) “The Secret Garden”

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Poetry 19th Cent. Robert L. Stevenson “A Child’s Garden of Verses” Christina Rosetti “Sing-Song” Laura Richards “Tirra-Lirra” (jingles which delighted 19th Cent. Babies)Book Illustrators Walter Crane (19th C.) Kate Greenaway (19th C.) English Ralph Caldecott Arthur Rackham Maurice Boutet de Bonvel French Ernest Kreidolf German

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Translations the Italian Pinocchio (1892) Carlo Lorenzini (Collodi) Bambi Austrian Felix Salten Pipi Longstocking Swedish Astrid Lindgren

Heidi Swiss Johanna Spyri

The Babar Series French Jean de Brunhoff Greatest figures these years• J.R.R.Tolkien(Britain)“The Hobbit” /”The Lord of the Rings”

• C.S.Lewis “The Chronicles of Narnia”

• J.K.Rowling “Harry Potter”

• Maurice Sendak (American) Picture Books“Where the Wild Things Are”

“ Outside Over There”

MOTHER GOOSE a fictitious narrator 1st published collections 18th Cent. “Baa, baa, black sheep” (a favourite with children)

“Hickory, Dickory, Dock” “Ding Dong, Bell” 18th Cent. examples

“Hey Diddle Diddle” “Mary Had a Little Lamb” American contribution

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early history of nursery rhymes earliest collection (1774) “Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song Book”

included: * “Baa, Baa, ….” * “Cock Robin” * “Hickory, Dickory,…” * “Little Tommy Tucker” * “Sing a Song of Sixpence” just a pair of Alphabet Songs had been printed before “ A was an Archer” (a llitle book for little children) (1712) “ A was an apple-pie” (child’s new play-things) (1743)

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Two other volumes published in the 18th Cent. Mother Goose’s Melody “Hush-a-bye-baby” “Hey Diddle Diddle” “Jack and Jill” Gammer Gurton’s Garland “There was an old woman who lived in a shoe” “ A Diller, a Dollar”

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Origin of Mother Gooseo 1st connected to Charles Perrault’s book “Stories or

Tales of Past Times (Cover showed 3 children around an old woman by the

fireside. On the wall behind a plaque read “Tales of Mother Goose”)

o Mother Goose’s Melody was so called because of the popularity of Perrault’s fairy tales

o Took the name from popular tradition. “Queen Goosefoot” (Bertha with the great foot) was the mother of Charlemagne